If you reread your message, you were the one implying that I was not patriotic. But that's neither here nor there.
My response to Robert may clarify my position on motivations a little better.
...the American Left is trying its damnedest to get the American military to lose this fight, and everyone here knows it. You are wrong and you make me very angry.
Sorry I'm making you angry. A small exercise: If the American Left and those who serve it in the media were actually trying to get America to lose the battle in Iraq, in what way would they be behaving differently? Can you think of anything they would be doing or saying that they aren't now?
If you actually put forth an Axis Annie to wreck the Iraqi rebuilding, what would she say on the radio and in print that Krugman and his ilk are not?
As for balance, and the "bad news sells" excuse, check out this article. Don't forget to check out the article from last week linked there (or just scroll down) if you missed it.
A small addendum to Reynold's article is found on Instapundit:
MY LATEST MSNBC POST on Big Media reporting on Iraq is up. In particular, I recommend the appearance by Pamela Hess on C-SPAN that's mentioned (and linked) there. Something that I found striking, but didn't mention, was that after Hess (a UPI reporter who just got back from Iraq) said that things weren't as bad in Iraq as the Big Media coverage makes them seem, she got a lot of truly nasty emails and phone calls from war critics who called her a "whore" and a "mouthpiece for the Administration." (One also called Bush a "monkey in a man suit.")
What is the motivation of those e-mailers? Patriotism?